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'Evangelion' creator Hideaki Anno returning to anime with new undertaking for 50-year-old franchise

There aren’t many anime administrators extra well-known than “Evangelion” creator Hideaki Anno, nevertheless it’s been some time now since Anno made any anime. His most up-to-date anime work is 2021’s “Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time,” which accomplished the “Rebuild of Evangelion” film sequence and, as of this time limit, the Eva anime franchise. Following “Thrice Upon a Time’s” launch, Anno wrote and produced 2022’s “Shin Ultraman” and wrote and directed 2023’s “Shin Kamen Rider,” which, together with the Anno-written-and-directed “Shin Godzilla,” spherical out his fashionable re-imaginings of Japan’s holy triumvirate of live-action tokusatsu particular results sequence.

But Anno is lastly prepared to come back again to the anime world, with a undertaking that’s nonetheless in step with his enduring love for iconic franchises from his childhood, as he’s introduced that he’s making a brand new “Space Battleship Yamato” anime.

Anno himself broke the news on Oct 6 at a particular screening in Tokyo of the primary episode of the unique “Space Battleship Yamato,” which Anno himself personally deliberate and offered on the precise date and time of the fiftieth anniversary of its authentic airing at 7:30 p.m. on October 6, 1974.

“I would like to take this opportunity to say that Khara [Anno’s anime studio] has been granted the rights to produce a new anime based on ‘Space Battleship Yamato’ by Voyager Holdings and its representative director Shoji Nishizaki,” stated Anno. “At the same time, we have also been granted permission to use the ‘Space Battleship Yamato’ copyright by Tohoku Shinsha.” Realizing that is likely to be slightly an excessive amount of legal-ise, Anno went on to summarize, “To put it more directly, I can now make new ‘Space Battleship Yamato’ works.”

▼ A particular fiftieth anniversary retrospective video for “Space Battleship Yamato”

“Space Battleship Yamato” is among the most influential anime of all time, previous not solely “Evangelion” however different landmark science fiction anime sequence resembling “Macross,” “Gundam” and “Galaxy Express 999.” A pathos-packed story of the World War II battleship Yamato being transformed right into a spaceship and despatched on a dangerous voyage to acquire methods for humanity to combat off alien invaders and cleanse the radiation the attackers’ weapons have contaminated the earth with, “Space Battleship Yamato” was Japan’s first house opera to turn into a significant hit, and got here at a time when it may depart a deep impression on many younger viewers who’d go on to make anime of their very own, resembling Anno. It additionally performed a key position in serving to anime as a medium set up a fan base within the U.S., the place a closely localized model, titled “Star Blazers,” was among the many first anime to air on American TV.

The Studio Khara official web site has confirmed that the undertaking can be a theatrical anime, and that will probably be a unique continuity than 2012’s “Space Battleship Yamato 2199” remake of “Space Battleship Yamato” and its subsequent sequels, together with “Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199.” However, Anno revealed that “Space Battleship Yamato 2199’s” director Yutaka Izubuchi (who’s additionally a famend mecha designer with creations resembling “Patlabor’s” Ingram on his resume) can be concerned in Khara’s Yamato undertaking, which is scheduled to enter manufacturing in 2025.

▼ Anno making the announcement in his customary soft-spoken approach

“If I’d never watched ‘Space Battleship Yamato,’ I wouldn’t have the life I have today,” says Anno in Khara’s assertion, and contemplating how a lot respect and keenness he put into “Shin Godzilla,” “Shin Ultraman” and “Shin Kamen Rider,” we will most likely anticipate him to do the identical with yet one more beloved landmark sequence from this youth.

Source: Oricon News, Studio Khara

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